Posted on 02/08/2010 7:58:56 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
That must be a patrimonial home you are talking about.
In my home the womens rule the showers, baths, vanities, toliets and of course..closets.
How many kids do you drop off each day?
One of my daughters is taking an extra elective, and it meets an hour before the regular class. I’m in a carpool, but on the days I drive I leave at 6:40am. Ugghhhh!!
When I was in high school, I had to be at school at 6:15am for marching band. It was Texas, and it was tooo hot to meet after school. I did that for 3 years, no problems. Now, I hate to get up early.
My Mother would’ve never taken me to school when I missed the bus if she would’ve had to have got dressed! She always had a nightgown with her coat on over it. LOL This is not a new thing I was in elementary school in the 1960’s.
Two.
I am dressed in the business suit that I am required to wear each day to work.
My wife does this on occasion. My only objection is, what if you are in a fender bender, or have car trouble? Imagine yourself walking down the road, in the rain, in your PJs and slippers going scoot scoot scoot down the road.
“Hell, they should be able to visit and inspect homes to ensure that proper nutrition is being provided, make sure that the moms and dads are well rested and sexually satisfied, that nobody is eating fattening foods, and make sure that lights are being turned off in empty rooms, television off at 8 p.m. Lets certainly ensure that the water is turned off while brushing teeth, and that everybody in the family is wearing deodorant.”
I don’t suppose it matters to you that this concerns parents on school grounds. Nor that, far from a binding regulation, it was merely a suggestion (in the principle’s words from the article: “’While it is not my position to insist on what people wear, or don’t, I feel that arriving at the school in pyjamas is disrespectful...”) Save your reductio ad absurdums for real threats to liberty.
The principal can just pound sand.
And then there are others who live in sweatpants. They’re opaque, not particularly revealing, comfortable, and one has great freedom of movement in them. I particularly like my camo ones, and wear them all sorts of places.
“Next time around somebody might want to fix you. For instance, my crusade might be that in order for the school to be safe, all children are to be questioned whether mom and dad keep guns at home. If it is discovered that guns are in the home well mom and dad need to be ‘invited’ to mandatory re education classes.
This stuff never stops. Don’t give an inch.”
By the same logic, perhaps we shouldn’t enforce any dress codes on the students, either. Or speech codes. Why, for that matter, stop public sex acts by consenting children (of age)? If it’s all a slippery slope, why maintain any standards short of violations of the Natural Rights of others?
I’ll tell you why. Because no “open society” ever did or could exist. We must maintain standards amongst ourselves. And while I wish we had a perfectly voluntary society and decorum could be enforced by scorn, ostracism, and such alone, so long as we have mandatory education and the kids are there and all, there’s nothing wrong with enforcing some level of decency.
Oh, also, we’re not even talking about enforcement here. It’s no more than the mildly-worded suggestion of a lowly bureaucrat. Given how, unlike gun-ownership, dress happens to be one of those categories that most everyone agrees ought to be subject to standards, I don’t see the big problem.
“The principal can just pound sand.”
He can, but I don’t think he should, since he’s right. It is disrespectful. Not so much to the school (which under no circumstances deserves respect) but to the witnesses.
From Seinfeld: “I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable.”
Unfortunately, wearing nothing but velvet is not socially acceptable. Nor is wearing sweatpants outdoors outside of some sort of sweaty activity, so far as I know. Casual dress is what we have jeans for, in my opinion. If I can’t wear sweatpants (and I’m pretty sure I can’t), then neither should you, in my opinion.
Maintain standards within your own family. Take care of the people you can influence. That’s a good thing. Stay out of my life and don’t you dare try to use government power or institutions to “raise my conciseness” (a term from Mao much loved here in America).
welll that sorta splains it then dino ...you are dressed already dear...you wouldn’t be wearing boucle just to drop them off
i will confess as a man....and on the rare day I take the children....(I work all the time and don’t do mornings well..lol) that I often go in what I slept in.....fleece Columbia pants and some sorta Carhartt underwear top with maybe a fleece zip up and ugg slippers ..how gay I know..lol
summer would be shorts and polo with flops
so I’m empathetic to the moms
my wife sleeps in sweatpants and cami so she just throws on a top
she take two to school and one to church pre school twice a week
petosin being what it is
If I had a fender bender or car trouble, I’d call somebody to come and get me. I would never enter the school building in my pajama bottoms but I do wear them in the car. My garage is attached to my house so I’m not even subjecting my neighbors to the sight of my pajamas. For that matter, most of us pajama drivers, throw on coats over our pajamas before we get behind the wheel.
LOL! Wow in the Army I learned to always volunteer for everything. It worked for me.
“Stay out of my life”
It’s not really your life, which is the point (after all, it’s other people looking at you, in public, not you looking at yourself). Also, can we define what it is to be in your life? Releasing a memo stating that pajamas aren’t respectful attire, is that intrusive, really?
The question is whether you have a right to wear whatever crap you would like at a school. I say you have no such right.
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LOL.
We’re talking about citizens in their cars, right? You’d empower the state to pull them out of their cars, evaluate their dress, and fine/imprison them for failure to live up to the national dress code?
What site is this again? Free!!!!!!! Republic?
I consider my right to dress as I damn well please to be unalienable, either as Liberty or Pursuit of Happiness. So you can bugger off :-)
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